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Father and son knife set

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A member of our archery club asked if I would make him and his young Son a set of knives with shed antlers he had as the handles. I agreed.

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I sent him all my blade forms and he picked a Nesmuk style blade. I made the blades from O1 Tool steel as its a favorite of mine.

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I did a bit of custom file work on the backbones of the blades to dress them up and then polished the file work

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Then I applied gun blueing to the backbone and gave the blades a brushed finish leaving the gun blueing in the deep areas of the file work.

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He asked that I fill in the white bases of the antlers with "Dad" and "Mitch" I saved the brow tines for display bases.

The blades are O1 steel that I heat treated and twice tempered to RC58 hardness

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For the sheaths, I used 8 Oz. Oak tanned leather with a medium brown dye to give an "Old" look to the leather..

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